Example sentences of "[vb past] killed him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd killed him , but my dread was replaced by fear as he began to come round . |
| 2 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
| 3 | She 'd killed him . |
| 4 | The pause after the first shot making sure they 'd killed him which is n't easy to do with a heart shot but they could n't go for the head because the sight line would n't fit with shooting at the President 's head — ’ |
| 5 | Mr Foster , also of Barnes , was found lying on the floor with the knife that had killed him under his body . |
| 6 | But he was in no way repentant , for he had parried this by saying he wished he had killed him and if he ever came across him again he would make another attempt . |
| 7 | ‘ In a way it would be easier if someone had killed him . |
| 8 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 9 | But there was little chance of discovering who had killed him without help . |
| 10 | Of course , that was before she had killed him . |
| 11 | Failing to win his love , Ayesha had killed him and had been condemned by Aphrodite to an eternal existence of longing and jealousy . |
| 12 | Maybe she had killed him . |
| 13 | Before he had time to realize that I was there , I had killed him . |
| 14 | Not so much the man who had killed him , though it would have pleased her to know that man was dead . |
| 15 | There , she checked for a pulse , fearing for a moment that she had killed him . |
| 16 | Benny reached out to turn the body , hoping to see if there was any clue to what had killed him . |
| 17 | To let the T'ang know who had killed him . |
| 18 | The nightmare thing , the thing they had said was her brother ( but she knew that this was impossible ) had killed him on the staircase . |
| 19 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 20 | And I had killed him ! |
| 21 | If the body had turned out to be Stavanger 's it would have been progress in the case , though we 'd have been no nearer knowing where he had been killed , or who had killed him . |
| 22 | She knew about the hound , and when Selden died she guessed that the hound had killed him . |
| 23 | It 's her fault , that bitch Caroline with her red hair and her expensive perfume — he would n't be here if it was n't for her , it was her that had killed him . |
| 24 | He recalled the final outcome of the short fight in the forest clearing , and wondered if his final power-punch to the face had killed him . |
| 25 | The IRA announced that they had killed him , and police found his body near Crossmaglen on Sept. 17 . |
| 26 | Mr George , who has lived with Gardiner 's wife Maggie for five years , said he 'd been told by Simon James that he ( James ) had driven Chalky White a to a place where Danny gardiner had killed him . |